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Beyond the laudable efforts to clampdown on corruption, and the uncompromising state-led interventionist policies to improve their economies, many experts have observed that Rwanda and Tanzania may be overstating various economic indicators in an effort to omit certain inconvenient truths …
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The arrow of time is always delving deeper in us, constantly forcing us forward, and in any story, time only flows when the story is told. The arm of time is always ticking to the beat of change, and change …
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In the best of times and for many reasons, the average Nigerian students hardly learn anything worthwhile in school. This statement is especially true for the majority of children from poor and low-income homes, which forms a large proportion of …
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The government is itself to blame for the precarious position in which South Africa finds itself economically. Therefore, it would be unwise for us to then identify government as the solution that those who are economically disempowered have been waiting …
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The negative effects of South Africa’s hard lockdown continue to reverberate through the economy and broader society. The latest flashpoint has been in the taxi industry, specifically in Gauteng, where the South African National Taxi Council (SANTANCO) started the week …
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Britain’s vote to ditch the European Union offers the chance of a new beginning—not just for the EU, and the U.K., but for Africa. Since most countries on the continent gained independence in the 1960s and 1970s, they have mindlessly …
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For a keen political observer, here is an observation about the global political scene that you cannot easily repudiate. Populist demagogues with a tendency to poke holes at social conventions are no longer playing a marginal role in politics; they …
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Only did I discover early in my ‘political career’ how constitution-making or constitutionalism is not as an exact body of critique as rocket science. However, bizarre human emotions, unfulfilled expectations, scandals, deceptions, corruption, and intrigue encountered in the topography of …
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The negative effects of South Africa’s hard lockdown continue to reverberate through the economy and broader society. The latest flashpoint has been in the taxi industry, specifically in Gauteng, where the South African National Taxi Council (SANTANCO) started the week …
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On 10 June, Professor Pierre de Vos, the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at the University of Cape Town, published a blog post titled Privilege and Inheritance: Time to Disrupt Intergeneration Transfers of Wealth. It garnered …
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